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2A I Thursday, August 17, 2006 | The Red & Black
NEWS
UGA TODAY
>■ Annual Kickoff for the
Demosthenian Literary
Society. 6 p.m.
Demosthenian Hall. Contact:
jdweiss@uga.edu
>- Carlos Mencia. 8 p.m.
Legion Field. Sponsor:
University Union. Cost: Free
for students with a valid
UGACard, but tickets are
required; $15 for non-stu
dents. Contact:
mlamotte@uga.edu, 706-542-
6396
Friday
>- International Coffee
Hour. 11:30 a.m. Memorial
Hall Ballroom. Sponsor:
International Student Life.
Contact 706-542-5867
>- Dawgs After Dark:
Snow Day. 9 p.m., movie at
Midnight activities. Tate
Student Center. Sponsor:
University Union. Cost: Free
for students with valid
UGACard, $5 for non-stu
dents. Contact: 706-542-
6396, jillt@uga.edu
Saturday
>- Gigantic Flea Market. 8
a.m. 2450 S. Milledge Ave.
Contact: beverly@uga.edu,
706-542-6138
>- Football Fans Picture
Day. Uga VI available from 1
- 3 p.m., players and coaches
from 3 - 5 p.m. Sanford
Stadium concourse. Contact:
706-542-1621
>- American Quilts
Exhibition. Through Nov. 19.
Georgia Museum of Art.
Sponsor: Friends of the
Georgia Museum of Art and
the W. Newton Morris
Charitable Foundation.
Contact: (706) 542-4662. Web
site: www.uga.edu.gamuse-
um
Sunday
>- Bound in Clay. Through
Oct. 8. Washington Historical
Museum. 308 E. Robert
Toombs Ave., Washington,
Ga. Contact: Stephanie
Macchia, historical @washing-
tonwilkes.org, (706) 678-
2105
Monday
>- Swing Lessons. 7 p.m.
Memorial Hall Ballroom. Cost:
$1 donation. Web site:
www.uga.edu/ugaswingclub
>- CURO Information
Session. 9:05 p.m. 203
Moore College. Sponsor:
CURO Office. Contact: rch-
eney@uga.edu, (706) 542-
4053
Tuesday
> Fitness Sneak Preview.
4 p.m. Ramsey Center, stu
dios A and B, the martial arts
studio and the cycle studio.
Sponsor: UGA Recreational
Sports. Contact:
ees@uga.edu, (706) 542-
5060
>- Power to the People!
Film Series. “The
Southerner” (1945). 7 p.m.
Clarke County Public Library
Auditorium, 2025 Baxter
Street. Contact: RennaTuten,
rtuten@uga.edu, (706) 542-
5788
Wednesday
>- Student Employment
Fair. 10-2 p.m. Georgia Hall.
Sponsored by the UGA
Career Center. Contact 706-
542-8829,
www.career.uga.edu
>- Opening Reception.
Eternal Masquerade: Prints
and Paintings by Gerald
Leslie Brockhurst. 6:30 p.m.
Georgia Museum of Art.
Contact (706) 542-4662. Web
site: www.uga.edu/gamuseum
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CORRECTIONS
Due a reporting
error in Wednesday’s
paper, the editorial
“No frat man’s land”
and story “Frat houses
offered relocation
deal” in Wednesday’s
Red & Black incorrect
ly stated the date the
Athens-Clarke County
Commission voted to
make new off-campus
fraternity and soriety
houses subject to “spe
cial use” procedures as
Aug. 3. The actual date
of the ACC
Commission vote was
Aug. 1.
Editor-in-Chief:
David Pittman
(706) 433-3027
dpittman@randb.com
Managing Editor:
Lyndsay Hoban
(706) 433-3026
lhoban@randb.com
TOP STORIES FROM AROUND
THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
Lebanese cabinet deploys more troops
SERGEY PONOMAREV | Associate Press
A Lebanese mourners carry the coffin of Hezbollah militant Moustafa Kamal Rakein, draped in
a Hezbollah flag, during his funeral procession in the village of Ech Chhabiye, southern
Lebanon on Wednesday.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The
Lebanese Cabinet agreed
Wednesday to deploy the
Lebanese army south of the
Litani River starting the next
day, a key demand of the
cease-fire that halted 34 days
of fighting between Israel and
Hezbollah. But it left unclear
the issue of disarming the
Islamic militant group.
The decision to start
deploying the army on
Thursday came as top foreign
diplomats planned the dis
patch of a 15,000-strong
international force that even
tually is to join the Lebanese
troops in patrolling the
region between the Israeli
border and the river, 18 miles
to the north.
It was the first meeting of
the divided Cabinet, which
includes two Hezbollah min
isters, since the cease-fire
went into effect on Monday.
The 15,000 Lebanese troops
and the U.N. peacekeepers
will slowly take over territory
from withdrawing Israeli
forces. Israel had threatened
to halt its withdrawal if the
Lebanese force did not move
south.
Hezbollah’s top official in
south Lebanon said the
group welcomed the
Lebanese army’s deployment
even as he hinted that the
Shiite guerrillas would not
disarm in the region or with
draw but rather melt into the
local population and hide
their weapons.
“Just like in the past,
Hezbollah had no visible mili
tary presence and there will
not be any visible presence
now,” Sheik Nabil Kaouk told
reporters Wednesday in the
southern port city of Tyre.
Proposed theory
counts 12 planets
PRAGUE, Czech Republic
— The universe really is
expanding — astronomers
are proposing to rewrite the
textbooks to say that our
solar system has 12 planets
rather than the nine memo
rized by generations of
schoolchildren.
Much-maligned Pluto
would remain a planet — and
its largest moon plus two
other heavenly bodies would
join Earth’s neighborhood —
under a draft resolution to
be formally presented
Wednesday to the
International Astronomical
Union, the arbiter of what
is and isn’t a planet.
“Yes, Virginia, Pluto is a
planet,” quipped Richard
Binzel, a professor of plane
tary science at the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
Besides reaffirming the
status of puny Pluto — whose
detractors insist it shouldn’t
be a planet at all — the
new lineup would include
2003 UB313, the farthest-
known object in the solar
system and nicknamed
Xena; Pluto’s largest moon,
Charon; and the asteroid
Ceres, which was a planet in
the 1800s before it got demot
ed.
Opium cultivation
hits record levels
KABUL, Afghanistan —
Opium cultivation in
Afghanistan has hit record
levels — up by more than 40
percent from 2005 — despite
hundreds of millions in
counternarcotics money,
Western officials told The
Associated Press.
The increase could have
serious repercussions for an
already grave security situa
tion, with drug lords joining
the Taliban-led fight against
Afghan and international
forces.
A Western anti-narcotics
official in Kabul said about
370,650 acres of opium
poppy was cultivated this
season — up from 257,000
acres in 2005 — citing
their preliminary crop projec
tions.
The previous record
was 323,700 acres in
2004, according to the
U.N. Office on Drugs and
Crime.
— Associated Press
Sept. 11 tapes reveal rescue difficulties
KATHY WILLENS | Associated Press
A Beverly Eckert, whose husband was killed in the World
Trade Center attacks in New York, listens to disclosed Sept.
11 tapes, Wednesday in New York. The tapes represent 911
calls from people who were trapped in the World Trade Center
towers.
NEW YORK — A fire offi
cial described near-chaos
inside the World Trade
Center, with communication
becoming increasingly diffi
cult as firefighters tried to
reach people trapped by a
devastating blaze raging high
overhead, recordings released
Wednesday of emergency
phone calls from the Sept. 11
attacks show.
“We’re in a state of confu
sion,” said Chief Dennis
Devlin of Battalion 9. “We
have no cell phone service
anywhere because of the dis
aster ... Bring all the addition
al handy talkies.”
Devlin tried to get a run
down of all the companies
dispatched to the burning
110-story buildings. He was
still inside the south Trade
Center tower when it col
lapsed.
The same mix of concern
and confusion was evident in
recordings of more of the
1,613 previously undisclosed
emergency calls made amid
the horror in the towers after
the hijacked planes hit the
trade center.
Passenger traveler
causes early landing
BOSTON — Fighter jets
escorted a London-to-
Washington, D.C., flight to
Boston’s Logan airport
Wednesday after the pilot
declared an emergency
because an apparently claus
trophobic passenger caused a
disturbance, federal officials
said.
The federal security official
for Logan said there was no
indication of terrorism and
denied reports that the
woman had a screwdriver,
matches and a note referring
to al-Qaida.
The passenger aboard
United Flight 923 said she
was claustrophobic and
became very upset and got
into some kind of confronta
tion with the flight crew, said
George Naccara, security
director for the
Transportation Security
Administration for
Massachusetts’ airport.
Teen wins case
against chemo
ACCOMAC, Va. — A 16-
year-old cancer patient’s legal
fight ended in victory
Wednesday when his family’s
attorneys and social services
officials reached an agree
ment that would allow him to
forgo chemotherapy
Starchild Abraham
Cherrix, who is battling
Hodgkin’s disease, will be
treated by an oncologist of
his choice who is board-certi
fied in radiation therapy and
interested in alternative
treatments. The family must
provide the court with
updates on Abraham’s treat
ment and condition every
three months until he’s cured
or turns 18.
Abraham said that he saw
the doctor last week, and the
doctor assured him that his
cancer is curable. The teen
said he’ll continue following
an alternative herbal treat
ment called the Hoxsey
method as well as his doctor’s
treatment plan. The regimen
won’t include chemotherapy,
but radiation is a possibility,
he said.
Last summer, the teen was
diagnosed with Hodgkin’s
disease, a cancer of the lym
phatic system considered
very treatable in its early
stages. He was so debilitated
by three months of
chemotherapy that he
declined a second, more
intensive round that doctors
recommended early this year.
He since has been using
the Hoxsey method, the sale
of which was banned in the
United States in 1960.
After Abraham chose to go
on the sugar-free, organic diet
and take liquid herbal supple
ments under the supervision
of a Mexican clinic, a social
worker asked a juvenile court
judge to intervene to protect
the teen’s health. Last
month, the judge found
Abraham’s parents neglectful
and ordered Abraham to
report to a hospital for treat
ment as doctors deem neces
sary.
According to the American
Cancer Society, there is no
scientific evidence that
Hoxsey is effective in treating
cancer in people. The herbal
treatment is illegal in the
United States but can be
obtained through clinics in
Mexico, and some U.S. natur
opathic practitioners use
adapted versions of the for
mula.
County awaits court
before new sex law
STATESBORO, Ga. —
Bulloch County officials said
Tuesday that they would hold
off on enforcing a state ban
on registered sex offenders
living within 1,000 feet of
school bus stops until a feder
al court decides its legality.
“If and when the law is
held constitutional, it will be
immediately implemented in
all aspects,” a county-issued
statement said.
The southeast Georgia
county was named in a law
suit filed in Atlanta federal
court Monday, asking a judge
to bar it from enforcing the
ban.
Bulloch County’s school
board voted last week to des
ignate about 1,700 bus stops,
triggering the provision that
was among changes to the
sex offender law passed by
the Legislature earlier this
year.
Last month, U.S. District
Judge Clarence Cooper
blocked deputies in Columbia
County from enforcing the
law.
The Atlanta-based
Southern Center for Human
Rights and other civil rights
groups argue the law is
unconstitutional because it
makes huge parts of the state
off-limits to convicted sex
offenders. They say it could
backfire, encouraging regis
tered offenders to stop
reporting their whereabouts.
— Associated Press
Deputies
sniff out
pot stash
TUCSON, Ariz. —
Authorities followed their
noses to nearly a ton of
marijuana hidden in a
Tucson stash house.
Pima County sheriff’s
deputies were on a call
about 6:30 a.m. Sunday
when they smelled fresh
marijuana coming from
next door, said Deputy
Dawn Barkman, a spokes
woman for the depart
ment.
The smell got stronger
as they approached the
house from where the
odor was coming, she
said.
The deputies contact
ed the Counter Narcotics
Alliance, which obtained a
search warrant for the
house. When alliance offi
cers entered the house, no
one was there.
But they did find 1,835
pounds of marijuana in a
room hidden behind a
wall, Barkman said.
The house was “obvi
ously a stash house”
and had no furniture, she
said.
The false wall was
removed to reveal a door
to the room where the
marijuana was stored.
Neb. man faces
226th arrest
LINCOLN, Neb. —
Kevin Holder’s rap sheet
is 43 pages long, dating
back to 1980, and he just
got another entry — his
226th arrest.
Police say they caught
him Sunday morning after
a brief chase and found
burglar tools in his pos
session.
“He’s very well-known
to Lincoln police officers,”
Police Chief Tom Casady
said.
Holder’s convictions
include criminal mischief,
marijuana possession, vio
lation of protection order,
assault, resisting arrest,
assault on an officer, pos
session of cocaine.
Many were misde
meanors, but he also has
been sentenced to at least
three prison terms for
felonies, including a four-
year stretch starting in
1996.
Holder’s list of arrests
doesn’t come close to set
ting a record for Lincoln-
Lancaster County.
He’s No. 40, police
spokeswoman Katherine
Finnell said Tuesday
— Associated Press
STEVE HELBER | Associated Press
A Starchild Abraham Cherrix, center, hugs family friend
Sharon Smith after a hearing at the Accomack County
Courthouse in Accomac, Va., Wednesday.